Hi! Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about. Please don't hit me. :poly122: I'm just curious; where can I learn about what goes on "under the hood" in games? For example, how do textures tie in with video ram? Are all the textures on screen stored in the video ram temporarily?
Thanks everyone for the kind words and the great questions! Let’s dive in. Working in VR is truly like walking on a razor's edge. It’s a technical hell where every decision must be calculated ten steps ahead. Performance requirements (high resolution across two displays + high frame rates) leave no room for error, and you…
This is a dust off / remaster of an old piece that's about ten years old by now (barf, time, why?). It was originally done in UE4 with Quixel Suite for the texturing. This project is special to me for a variety of reasons, but it definitely needs a facelift to stay in the portfolio. I'm mainly looking to improve the…
I had made a post of a sketch I made on reddit not too far back that got some traction and made it to the front page for a day. As expected there were many positive and a few negative comments. I am pretty thick skinned because that's what the internet has forced me to become but one comment that has been pushing me to…
A general web search for 'pbr wood tutorials' should get you some good results. What may be infinitely more beneficial is to take some time to study the reference image and try to breakdown some of the details that make it look the way it looks. For example here are some observations that jump out at me: a. all the edges…
LOL thanks a lot, I would travel back in time and give this image to me, it would've been very useful, amazing tool! The most struggling part of making this model was getting the proportions right because the references I've found were very poor, had poor lighting, bad perspectives and were very distorted. Once I'll stick…
Hi everyone! I’m from Korea and currently studying game design on my own to break into the industry. I actually graduated with a bachelor's degree in korea Architecture, but I decided to transition into games because I find this field much more exciting and fulfilling. I have a quick question for those based in Europe or…
Ahhh, I'm still suffering gravely from the curse of perfectionism. I ended up redoing the basic construction several times. I also procrastinated by playing around with my brushes more. I finally managed to make a spatula-type brush that feels just right to me, so I decided to play with some carving. I tried sculpting this…